The Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance IPA General overview DG Enlargement Financial Instruments and Regional Programmes Directorate

New Instrument IPA Council Regulation (EC) No 1085/2006 adopted on 17 July 2006 A unified Pre-Accession Instrument to assist candidate and potential candidate countries Replaces Phare, ISPA, SAPARD and Turkey pre-accession instruments, as well as the CARDS instrument Financial envelope (2007–13) : bio € bio € (current prices)

Regulatory framework IPA= Council Framework Regulation (EC) No 1085/2006 of 17 July 2006 (OJ L 210 of 31 July 2006)+ Commission Implementing Regulation (adoption expected early 2007)

Structure of IPA Five components : I. Transition Assistance and Institution Building II. Cross-Border Co-operation III. Regional Development IV. Human Resources Development V. Rural Development

Targeted assistance under IPA Potential candidate countries: first two components  Support for participation in the Stabilisation and Association process all the way to future accession, with access to the first two IPA components  Under component I  Under component I, possibility of financing components III, IV and V-type measures Candidate countries: 5 components to help countries to:  Adopt and implement the acquis  Prepare for EU funds on accession

General implementation framework Multi- annual Indicative Financial Framework (MIFF) enlargement package I. Political and Financial Framework : Multi- annual Indicative Financial Framework (MIFF), per country and per component, 3- year rolling forward, included in enlargement package. Multi-annual Indicative Planning Documents (MIPD) II. Strategic planning: Multi-annual Indicative Planning Documents (MIPD), per country and for all components, following the logic of the MIFF. programming III. Specific programming by country and by component

General implementation framework: flowchart Candidates A. B. C. ENLARGEMENT PACKAGE, including Multi-annual Indicative Financial Framework MIFF by country and by component Multi-annual Indicative Planning Document by country for all relevant components Comp IComp II Comp IIIComp IVComp V National or Horizontal Programme Joint Programme Operational Programme/ Large project Operational programme Rural Development programme

Multi-annual Indicative Financial framework Part of the enlargement package Financial translation of the overall priorities identified within the pre- accession political framework Breakdown of financial envelope by horizontal programmes, country and component, administrative expenditure Established for a 3 year period on a rolling forward basis

Multi-annual Indicative Planning Document One for each beneficiary country, covering all relevant components strategic cornerstone of IPA implementation, ensures the necessary coherence between components Following the 3 year rolling logic Prepared by the Commission, in close consultation with the beneficiary country and relevant stakeholders Submitted to IPA management Committee for opinion

Programming level detailed annual or multi-annual programmes MIPD supplemented by detailed annual or multi-annual programmes, depending on the component Programmes established per component Programmes established per component, where possible by the beneficiary country and submitted to the Commission

Management Operations to be implemented through centralised management, decentralised management, joint management or shared management Fully decentralised management the objective Fully decentralised management, i.e. decentralised management with only ex-post rather than ex-ante control = the objective. Accesscomponents III, IV and V Access to components III, IV and V, open only if decentralisation open only if decentralisation in place

Next steps MIFF presented with enlargement package on 8 November 2006 Strategic planning per country, all components: MIPD expected to be submitted to IPA Committee 1st quarter of each year Specific programming per country, per component

Conclusions Building on lessons learned:  Single legal base: more coherence and co- ordination in assistance, as well as targeted and more efficient assistance  Single implementing regulation: harmonisation of implementing procedures to the maximum possible extent